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PROGRESS IN BIOPHYSICS & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Volume 90, Issue 1-3, Pages 270-298Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2005.06.009
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HL-1 cell line; K-ATP channels; mitochondrion; cardiac preconditioning
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HL-1, the first cell line with a cardiac phenotype for biological experiments, displays spontaneous electrophysiological and mechanical regular activity, and cyclic calcium movements. We isolated a derived line, devoid of transient movements, for confocal microscopy experiments. These cells do express cardiac proteins: connexin 43, the cardiac isoform of dihydropyridine receptors, desmin, and developmental myosin but have no sarcomeric arrangement. They still possess the electrophysiological characteristics and ionic currents of cardiac cells, among them the cardiac potassium current IKr. We also found diazoxide and glibenclamide sensitive potassium channels with properties similar to IKATP in adult cardiac myocytes. The pacemaker current If was not observed, in agreement with the cells showing excitability but lacking in pacemaker activity. The absence of movement is an advantage for studies which include changes of media in order to follow morphological changes under continuous perfusion. We observed however a basal spontaneous movement of mitochondria and we developed a method to quantify its amplitude using confocal microscopy. No mitochondrial depolarization could be detected when the membrane potential was measured by using very low light photomultiplier and confocal fluorescence imaging under the K-ATP channel opener diazoxide. Thus cardiac pharmacological preconditioning by KATP channel openers might involve other routes than mitochondrial K channels targeting. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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